Bruce Lee
There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.Collection: Motivational
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.Collection: Inspiring
The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.Collection: Taken
Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.Collection: Differences
The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.Collection: Strong
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.Collection: Distance
I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.Collection: Inspiring
Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.Collection: Moving
The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.Collection: Successful
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.Collection: Art
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.Collection: Art
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.Collection: Skills
If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.Collection: Life
'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.Collection: Thinking
Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.Collection: Success
The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.Collection: Inspirational
The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.Collection: Self
There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.Collection: Maturity
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.Collection: Patterns
The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.Collection: Art
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.Collection: Inspirational
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.Collection: Loneliness
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.Collection: Motivational
You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.Collection: Self
To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.Collection: Yesterday
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.Collection: Art
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.Collection: Struggle
As you think, you shall becomeCollection: Thinking
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.Collection: Attitude
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.Collection: Motivational
Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.Collection: Mean
People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.Collection: People
Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.Collection: Motivational
We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.Collection: Understanding
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.Collection: Swimming
Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.Collection: Journey
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusionCollection: Understanding
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.Collection: Distance
All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.Collection: Mean
The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.Collection: Accomplishment
More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.Collection: Believe
When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.Collection: Moving
Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.Collection: Dream
Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.Collection: Negativity
Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.Collection: Philosophy
A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.Collection: Moving
The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.Collection: Men
Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!Collection: Interesting